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Doing the Twist: Checking Fastener Tightness
A loose nut or bolt can lead to an early end for your night of racing. Here's some tips on how to prevent this more |
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Getting Belted: How to properly install safety belts in a racecar
Improperly installed safety belts can be an express ticket to the hospital. Find out how to properly install your safety belts so you can... more |
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Hijacking Out of a Bind: Building your own specialized floor jack
A basic floor jack can be easily modified into a specialty jack that will make shop work easier more |
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Cheap Racing Classes - Don't Break The Bank
Going raing doesn't have to be a financial strain. Click here to find out some ways to have fun on the track and still have money left for... more |
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Torquing Lug Nuts
Improperly torqued lugnuts can ruin an otherwise great night of racing, and ding up your wallet at the same time. Sleepy Gomez shows the... more |
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Calibrate A Torque Wrench
A do-it-yourself way to check the accuracy of your torque wrench to make sure your bolts and nuts stay tight. more |
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Radiator Repair for Your Racer
How to perform an easy fix on your aluminum or brass radiator more |
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Building A Race Car Trailer Part 2
In Part 1 I covered building the basic frame of a budget race cartrailer. It was fitted with 6,000-pound mobile-home axles. They... more |
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Building A Race Car Trailer Part 1
Sometimes we bucks-down racers spend all our money on the race car andthen have to borrow a trailer to get it to the track. This is an all... more |
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Street Stock Engine Build Part 1
If you are a pro engine builder, skip this article. If you have built upa few engines with some success, then read this lightly. If you've... more |
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Open Stock Car Trailers - Building A Race Car Trailer, Part 3
Our budget-built open race car trailer gets some updates more |
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Please Be Seated: How to Mount a Seat
A racing seat won't do much good if it doesn't stay where is supposed to - we show you how to ensure it does more |
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Please Be Seated: How to Mount a Seat
How to mount a racing seat - safely. more |
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Race Fuel - Handling & Storing - Fuel Smarts
On the surface, handling and storing racing fuel appears to be simple. However, racers can make a lot of mistakes. To find out the... more |
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Common Handling and Steering Problems - Getting A Handle On Handling the Steering
There are many names for the condition in which a race car turns too little or too much. So let's start with some definitions. more |
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Duct Tape Uses in Racing - Stuck on Tape
Each week Winston Cup crews pull out $4 rolls of duct tape and make major changes to the performance of a $200,000 race car. more |
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Floor & Car Jack - Modification - Low Cost Lift
For the average Saturday night racer, common car floor jacks are either too heavy or too inconvenient to use at the track, and buying a... more |
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Buying the Right Welder
When a race team wants to buy a welder, just what does it need to know before shelling out the bucks? We went to the showroom floor to ask... more |
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Car Weighing Scales - Weighing In
Like most of us, when buying something new you’ve asked yourself, which one should I get? With the quantity of different scales... more |
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Paint Job - Not-So-Pricey Paint
Trying to keep your race car looking good can become frustrating. You may want the best paint job available, but in the back of your mind... more |
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Tony Stewart - Building a Winner
Ask Tony Stewart how he won six races in the 2000 Winston Cup season and he’ll give you this answer: He honestly doesn’t know.... more |
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Want to Work in NASCAR?
Let’s crush the myth once and for all. You cannot walk up to a NASCAR team, offer to sweep its shop floor, and work your way up to... more |
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How to Build a Pit Box
As the level of technology elevates racing, so does the amount of equipment needed to be competitive. What you use in the way of parts and... more |
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Conditioning Has Become An Important Tool
When fractions of a second count, Winston Cup drivers have to depend on the performance of their pit crews--the seven men who go over the... more |
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